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“Every manager would like to see a match decided in 90 minutes. Because I don't think there's any way you can prepare for penalty kicks.”

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Joachim Low

Joachim Low is a renowned German football coach, born on February 3, 1960. He is known for his success with the German national team and at club level, particularly leading the team to the World Cup title in 2014. Low is highly regarded in the football community for his tactical acumen and leadership skills. more

“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their natural sloth tempting them on the other. They are terrified at the prospect before them, of the toil required to attain exactness. The impetuosity of youth is disgusted at the slow approaches of a regular siege, and desires, from mere impatience of labour, to take the citadel by storm. They wish to find some shorter path to excellence, and hope to obtain the reward of eminence by other means, than those which the indispensable rules of art have prescribed.”

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.”

Ifs World Literature Religious Offers Versions Nonsense Cosmos Tragic Nonsensical

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more comfortable to our natures.”

Laughing Comfortable Wit Genuine Nonsense

Author:Margaret of Valois

“The Syrian border town of Qa'im was the main gateway Islamic radicals used to go to Iraq. Syria became the passageway for extremists from Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations to fight a jihad against American forces in Iraq.”